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Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. (www.faa.gov)
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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

Well then...

As a #SovereignCitizen, I will not comply with FAA drone laws 😏

Bonus points: Y'all can use an app called Rattlegram to convert a sting of text into audio that can be played over amateur radio. And if you encrypt the text beforehand using encryption tools such as Secure Space Encryptor (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS), or Open PGP (both are open source), before pasting the ciphertext into Rattlegram (also open source), you have encrypted off-grid communications.

This is #Murica! The president can ignore laws. So can we. 😎

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And then when their anonymous airplanes crashed into each other, the world felt conflicted about it.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 points 1 day ago

Oh no that would be so sad. Please no.

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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

Luckily the FAA has no power in europe

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 51 points 1 day ago

Paparazzi can become useful by simply being the ones reporting the plane movement as they follow them around in person.

[–] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 197 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wait! Think about the children! What if we need to track pedophiles!?

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago

Only poor antifascist trans people are pedophiles dummy. /s

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago

You mean Republicans? Yeah they won't allow that, silly

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The pedophiles are in power, except "real pedophilia is when the gays do it".

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 64 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hope a traffic controller guides Elon's jet into the tarmac.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

even better, accidentally into trumps airforce one.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 100 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Anyone who isn’t rich in America can go fuck yourself is what they’ve been saying for a while in words and actions. Millionaires are the middle class today, actors and athletes and pop stars. Anything below is just a fucking scum fuck to them.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oddly, millionaires aren't really the middle class. House's in California routinely cost more than a million dollars. And a lot of people probably have a million dollars of retirement in one form or another. (Pensions have a value that very often tops a million). The middle class you are describing (athletes and pop stars) probably are more like 100 million or something. We just don't have a good name for that.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 17 points 1 day ago

What the "middle class" can afford has changed quite a bit in the last few decades. Owning a home is arguably "upper class" at this point. The median US income was only $80k in 2023. Pentions are also getting increasingly rare. What used to be considered middle class is now struggling to get by. Middle class is defined by the income of the middle third of the population, not by a particular lifestyle.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Petite bourgeoisie is what they are called. Wealthy people without an aristocratic title, not part of the ruling class and who still use their own labor to create wealth.

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 66 points 2 days ago

Appropriate

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 109 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This doesn't do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts. You can still track them, the N number/ICAO ID is what people are using

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is actually most helpful to the little guys that own $20,000 airplanes.

I have a small airplane and it's always bothered me that my name and address are publicly accessible through the FAA registry.

Most pilots I know are careful about photos they publish online showing their tail number printed in large bold letters on either side of the aircraft. This registration number can be entered into websites like flightaware.com and someone is literally two clicks from seeing my full name and home address.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If you own your own home, anyone can get your full name through property records. Is this really that different?

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is different because you typically need to know the municipality I live in first.

Also the registration allows anyone to track me anytime I fly.

How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live? Also what if you are required to plaster that registration number on the side of your vehicle in large letters that can be seen from a block away?

It's a massive invasion of personal privacy.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live?

Buy a new car, you won't be far from that.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The new car is worse. They will sell your info to the highest bidder.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

And to every other bidder, too, of course.

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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I was looking up bike lanes in a city I was thinking of buying a house in and the map had property lines on it, with the registered owners names plastered in every space.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Why would you want to hide that information? As long as planes use public skies everyone should be identified. Thats like the very basics of every secure operation.

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely air traffic in the sky should be identified. There is no problem with that, but it's the idea that it is too easy to find out everything about an aircraft owner by simply seeing the number on their tail.

The rich guys obfuscate that info with shell corps to own the aircraft.

Shouldn't everyone have the right to the same level of privacy regardless of how much money they have?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe the rich guys shouldn't be able to it instead and thats what should change?

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like with the cars.

You can find out anything as well with the license plates.

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

No you cannot. You cannot easily find someone's address from looking at their plate. You need more information, or to do some advanced searching. It is simply not the same.

[–] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can you take me for a ride on your plane?

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Shitposters ride for free

[–] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

Hell yeah :D

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 113 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So can guys like Epstein...

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 28 points 2 days ago

It’s the same group of people. They’re buddies.

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[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How about drones? If you don't want all of your information avaible online and don't want remoteid to directly tell anyone and everyone where you live you can request not to do any of that stuff, right? Oh no, this is just for rich people flying in private jets that can transport humans and tons of cargo.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Elon now can more easily buy his specialK, lol

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

all that premium cocaine from columbia.

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[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

These two are the least of out worries now.

Imagine this law in like 1999

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think this will be a bigger boon to folks like Elevated Access than to the billionaires of the world. Makes it a little harder for some chud who doesn't like what they're doing to show up at a pilot's home with a rifle.

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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is sort of like the depreciation tax benefit for private jets from the Trump tax cuts. I get it, I do, I just don't care for the government offering extra help for the types of people in this scenario. Let them manage with their billions.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If not for the billionaires, why do governments exist?

Huh... Recent context has really ruined jokes like this...

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